Saturday, April 5, 2014

Amazing Graphic Shows Chicago’s Middle Class Disappear Before Your Eyes

Click here to access article and view the graphic by from his blog City Notes. 
...the obvious and immediate reaction to these maps is to see them as a direct consequence of rising income inequality. ...but the researchers from which much of this data came have already discovered that income segregation has actually risen faster than inequality.

...here you go: the disappearance of Chicago’s middle-class and mixed-income neighborhoods since 1970, measured by each Census tract’s median family income as a percentage of the median family income for the Chicago metropolitan region as a whole.